1971 Alisal Boy’s Basketball Team 

Alisal was the first team from the Salinas Valley to win a Central Coast Section championship in any sport, boys or girls. That championship  squad was part of a three-year stretch where they strung together records of 27-5, 27-3 and 28-2, the champions being the second of those three teams. In the early ages of the CCS, only league champions — there were 11 in 1970 and 1971 and 12 in 1972 — advanced to the CCS playoffs. Doing one better than the 1970 squad that got to the finals and finished runner-up, Alisal defeated Mitty 59-57 to win the 1971 championship. The coach of the Alisal squad was Cork Haddan, a previous Salinas Valley Sports Hall of Fame inductee.